The only way I’m going to watch this at all is if I’m high, and probably not even then. I don’t want to give them the metrics.

wait what

Even these delicious lemon tarts?

Yeah. I want to see a lot more investigation into whether the various amazing things Musk-related companies have achieved are because of Musk or if he just routinely takes the credit for the work of people he hires. I mean, I’d be shocked, I tell you shocked to find out that Musk of all people steals credit.

It can be two things, but diagnosing mental illness is better left to the professionals. It’s enough that Muskrat is a plutocrat jackass piece of shit, which any of us can diagnose.

Next up: Galileo!

Maybe a movie that’s better engaged with in terms of its ideas than its cinematic presentation? I haven’t seen it but it still seems interesting.

The Matrix, as Zircon correctly guessed.

If you’re talking about just giant media company mergers, yeah. In general the rate of large-scale mergers (in general) has cooled a bit in the last couple of years as the FTC has become increasingly hostile toward them; companies that might have gone for it 10 years ago might not even try to bother if they assume…

Now I want a Dickinson/Hawkeye crossover where Emily Dickinson and Kate Bishop just kind of hang out and make fun of passers-by.

I’ve been of the opinion for years now that companies simply shouldn’t be allowed to even be that large. Companies that size warp the market by their sheer gravity, and there is no benefit to consumers that outweighs the damage they can do. In an ideal (yet still capitalist) world, no company would have a market cap…

It’s pronounced “thermobaric bomb”

Will Gluck? I think that, combined with watching sexy people, is enough to get me to watch this movie. Maybe while high.

Other future Snyder franchises:

I mean, dunking on your worst fans is one thing, but continuing to make material that panders directly to what those fans want kind of undercuts said dunking.

Right? Like, we could do a lot better than Biden, but at least we can work with a Biden world. Trump et. al. literally want a fascist dictatorship, genocide, Handmaid’s Tale, etc.

This. Lina Khan has been kicking ass and taking names. Mergers this size (hell, companies this size) are almost by definition harmful to competition and thus consumers, and it’s high time the public sphere finally started to recognize that.

The end result is a way-too-big media company either way.

I have the same feeling. I mean I’m sure they were considered attractive and modern names at the time, but “Bertha” and “Gladys” at least, unlike some archaic-sounding names of that era, haven’t come back into fashion and so still sound old-fashioned and dowdy.